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	Festival of Politics 2006 - News - Full house for 'A Life in Politics' with Tam Dalyell
		Frustrated by the length of time it would take Dalyell to rehearse his argument on why under devolution he could continue to vote on educational matters in Accrington but not Armadale, Powell decided that the issue should simply be known as the West Lothian Question.
		Dalyell went on to reveal however that on a final visit, some years later, to Powell's house in Eaton Square, London, the former Conservative MP handed over ownership of the phrase.
		In it, Dalyell recalls the "cataclysmic experience" of visiting Belsen with army colleagues in 1952 and how it was a turning point in his political life and the moment when he became a European.
	www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk /news/news-06/021.htm (539 words)

	Dalyell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tam Dalyell MP, the father of the British House of Commons, told a packed meeting in Newcastle-Under-Lyme that there was no force in the world capable of restraining George Bush now other than the American people themselves.
		Dalyell, Labour MP for Linlithgow, was speaking at the 13th Stephen Swingler Memorial Lecture, held in memory of Stephen Swingler, who was Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1955-1969.
		Dalyell reminded his audience that until as recently as 1994 America and its allies were arming Iraq, and doing deals over oil.
	www.tbns.net /keele/tam.html (1108 words)

	Articles - Tam Dalyell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), more commonly known as Tam Dalyell (pronounced), is a British politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005.
		Dalyell was born in England but raised in the family home (The Binns) near Linlithgow; his father was an "old school" Empire civil servant and through his mother he is an hereditary baronet, although he never uses the title.
		On March 7, 2003 Dalyell was elected Rector of the University of Edinburgh by the staff and students.
	www.junctione.com /articles/Tam_Dalyell (726 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Dalyell's chance of office was gone forever, which he says he still regrets: "I don't pretend that I wouldn't like to have been a minister because I would have done.
		Not only did Dalyell fight tirelessly at Westminster, he toured Scotland for three months debating in public with the pro-Assembly MP Jim Sillars before a referendum which had been sabotaged by two other anti-devolution Scots, Robin Cook and George Cunningham, so that a 40% popular vote was needed for the measure to pass.
		Dalyell voted for Michael Foot over Denis Healey in the leadership elections of 1982, and was rewarded with the post of front bench shadow spokesman on science.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4392820,00.html (3692 words)

	Edinburgh Student Newspaper : News : Tam Dalyell Elected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dalyell, MP for Linlithgow and father of the house was returned by a margin of over 300 votes by staff and students at the university.
		Dalyell, a serial dissenter in the House of Commons, campaigned on a programme of widening access to the university and boosting the opening times of libraries o campus which have recently been eroded by budget cuts.
		Although Dalyell's principle formal duty in the unpaid job is to chair the University Court, the establishment's highest decision-making authority, past rectors have also acted as a figurehead for the University and have played an important role in supporting student societies as well as liasing with the student body.
	www.studentnewspaper.org /view_article.php?article_id=20030416153757 (798 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Dalyell becomes next Edinburgh rector
		Mr Dalyell, who will chair the university's governing court's meetings representing the views of students, beat his closest competitor, the novelist Jenny Colgan, to the post with 639 votes to her 293.
		Mr Dalyell, the outspoken backbench MP for Linlithgow, said he was "honoured" to be elected.
		Mr Dalyell studied at Cambridge University and was a teacher until he entered the Commons at the age of 30.
	education.guardian.co.uk /administration/story/0,9860,911393,00.html (384 words)

	Saga Magazine - The Saga interview: Tam Dalyell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tam Dalyell is the sort of backbencher who makes party leaders nervous, pursuing his own line with a fierce determination.
		Tam Dalyell is lightly dusted with the snows of yesteryear.
		The Dalyells have a son and a daughter, and home is The Binns, a stately pile which overlooks the Forth and has been in the family for 400 years.
	www.saga.co.uk /magazine/article/27954EC9-60B0-4B0F-8EEC-1836310C5CAD.asp?bhjs=0 (1727 words)

	Tam Dalyell is a racist. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tam Dalyell the Labour MP for Linlithgow and, as the longest serving MP, the father of the House of Commons, has been quoted in the American magazine Vanity Fair as making outspoken anti-Semitic remarks.
		Dalyell also told the Daily Telegraph that he believed the prime minister was also indirectly influenced by Jewish people in the Bush administration, including Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Ari Fleischer, the President's press secretary.
		Dalyell is the new rector of Edinburgh University, elected by the students.
	www.iconservatives.org.uk /tam_dalyell_is_a_racist.htm (838 words)

	British MP Tam Dalyell: 'Zionist cabal runs policy on Israel'
		Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House, says Blair aides are skewing British foreign policy on the Middle East in favour of the Israeli government.
		Dalyell suggests Blair was "unduly influenced" by figures including Lord Levy, Labour’s chief fund-raiser and Blair’s unofficial envoy to the region, Peter Mandelson, and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, an Anglican who had a Jewish grandfather.
		Dalyell, the longest-serving MP in the Commons, said hawks in Washington were already too close to the right-wing Likud government of Israeli leader Ariel Sharon.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3228.htm (435 words)

	Linlithgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tam Dalyell has fought and won 11 electoral contests here but will not be standing for the Scottish Parliament which he has fought against for so long.
		Tam Dalyell along with George Cunninghame, set in motion the events which led to the downfall of the Callaghan government and 18 years of Tory rule.
		Although Tam Dalyell may not be liked by many who disagree with his views, he is nevertheless almost universally respected as a man of integrity who sticks to his guns and who is an excellent constituency MP.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot99constit/l07.html (1339 words)

	Britain: Veteran Labour MP challenges destruction of Lockerbie evidence
		Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP for the Scottish constituency of Linlithgow, used his parliamentary privileges to effectively accuse the British government of destroying evidence relating to the criminal investigation of the 1988 attack on PanAm flight 103, which killed 270 people.
		Dalyell is the longest serving MP in Westminster—the so-called father of the house”;.
		Dalyell quoted a subsequent statement from Boylan in which she described how, in 1999, she attended Dumfries police station and was asked to describe a suitcase rim, with a handle attached.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/loc-a01.shtml (624 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Tam Dalyell
		With the retirement of Ted Heath in 2001, Tam Dalyell became Father of the House of Commons, having served as an MP continuously since 1962.
		Mr Dalyell is famed for his ability to focus on an issue and pursue it obsessively through the Commons, literally for years, making fine use of parliamentary procedures to harass or embarrass ministers into submission.
		Like his fellow Old Etonian Labour MP Mark Fisher, Mr Dalyell is on the left of the party, and has been one of the Commons' leading critics of military conflicts, having been opposed to both the Falklands conflict and the Gulf War.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2119440.stm (249 words)

	Democracy for the Middle East: DFME Confesses II
		DFME Confesses II Tam Dalyell, a senior member of the House of Commons, has blasted Blair for being under the control of a Jewish cabal.
		The good news is that Tam Dalyell's outburst to Vanity Fair - in which he suggested Tony Blair was unduly influenced by a Jewish cabal - has not been ignored.
		American journalists covering the Dalyell story say the same comments would be a career-ender in Washington - much as Republican Trent Lott's expression of nostalgic sympathy for racial segregation recently cost him his place at the helm of the US Senate.
	www.dfme.org /archives/000581.html (440 words)

	Britain’s Longest Serving MP Tom Dalyell, Criticized for Calling Bush Administration a "Cabal"
		Dalyell, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, had accused Tony Blair of being influenced by a "cabal" of Jewish ministers and officials.
		Dalyell later told the Guardian, "The cabal that I referred to was in the U.S…that is the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
		Dalyell who is a fierce opponent of war denies the accusations of anti-semitism.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3371.htm (465 words)

	Edinburgh to Inverness via Stirling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dalyell made his fortune and in 1612 he returned and bought the land and built his house.
		General Tam Dalyell (1599-1685), son of Thomas, was a staunch royalist and fought for Charles II against Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
		On one occasion Tam won and in a fit of temper the Devil threw the card table at him but missed and the table went out of the window to land in what was known as the Sergeant's Pond.
	www.lawrieweb.com /eis/eis03.html (1651 words)

	Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
		Tam Dalyell's dissenting view from the current policy of America and the UK towards Iraq is well known.
		Tam will discuss his assessment of the future for Iraq and the other nation states that make up the Middle East, based on his unique knowledge and understanding of the area and its history.
		Mr Dalyell expressed his opinion that it was an absolute disgrace that the present Labour government under Tony Blair is going along with the US in a folly the consequences of which we will have to live with for a long time.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /royalphil/rps/summaries/middle.htm (1241 words)

	New Order
		LONDON—Tam Dalyell, the veteran Labor MP and opponent of countless wars, faces an investigation for inciting racial hatred after he accused Tony Blair of being unduly influenced by Jewish ministers and officials.
		Dalyell for his "misguided" remarks, a former Labor MP said he would refer the father of the Commons to the Commission for Racial Equality.
		Dalyell's critics took exception after it was claimed that he felt Mr.
	www.theneworder.org /news/menacingcandor.htm (366 words)

	Britain: Labour extends antiwar witch-hunt to Tam Dalyell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To accuse Dalyell of anti-semitism is absurd, given that his political career has at least partly been shaped by his support for Zionism and the State of Israel.
		He insists that Dalyell’s remarks are “a racist slur,” denounces the MP for McCarthyism and for crossing the line “between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism”—comparing his remarks with the anti-Zionist rhetoric employed by the fascist British National Party.
		Dalyell was quoted at the time, saying, “This is a blueprint for US world domination—a new world order of their making.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/may2003/lab-m22.shtml (1920 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Great Lives Tam Dalyell on Richard Crossman 13/12/2002
		Perhaps his greatest contribution was the description of the rise of 'Prime Ministerial Government', his analysis of the concentration of power away from the Cabinet into the hands of Downing Street, a threat to collective responsibility that is still with us.
		Tam Dalyell was at Eton and Cambridge before becoming a teacher in both Scotland and India.
		As MP for West Lothian (1962-83) his greatest contribution to British political life was the formulation of the West Lothian question, an objection to Scottish devolution based on the presence of Scottish MPs at Westminster.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/greatlives/dalyell_crossman.shtml (448 words)

	NO PRIME MINSTER - [Sunday Herald]
		Dalyell told the Sunday Herald yesterday: “Until a year ago, I would have said Gordon Brown was such a substantial political figure he could override this.
		Dalyell explains his belief that the job of prime minister will be unattainable for a Scottish MP in the future.
		If Dalyell and Williams have been honest and voiced what others are quietly keeping to themselves – that built-in barriers and prejudices are already there – then although Gordon Brown may reach Number 10, that is it for talented political Scots.
	www.sundayherald.com /48497 (1669 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Dalyell may face race hatred inquiry
		Tam Dalyell, the veteran Labour MP and opponent of countless wars, faces an investigation for inciting racial hatred after he accused Tony Blair of being unduly influenced by Jewish ministers and officials.
		As leading British Jews criticised Mr Dalyell for his "misguided" remarks, a former Labour MP said he would refer the father of the Commons to the commission for racial equality.
		Mr Dalyell's critics took exception after it was claimed that he felt Mr Blair was influenced by a "cabal" of Jewish advisers.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /iraq/story/0,12956,949651,00.html (545 words)

	British MP Sees Catastrophe Ahead
		Tam Dalyell, who is known as the Father of the House because he is the longest serving MP (he was elected first in 1962), carries considerable weight in Parliament and in the public.
		Dalyell, who has been closely monitoring the situation in Iraq, said most people could see what the U.S. and British governments could not.
		Dalyell, who served in a tank regiment himself for two years, says "my heart goes out to the soldiers." He said leaders have no idea what it is like to wear a tank suit, no idea how hot Iraq can be even in the early summer.
	www.rense.com /general36/cat.htm (931 words)

	General Tam Dalyell of the Binns - ScotWars
		Also known as Bluidy Tam, General Dalyell, an ancestor of today's Labour MP, became notorious for his suppression of the Covenanters at the Battle of Rullion Green, in the Pentland Hills, in 1666.
		But they were turned back -and found their route home blocked by General Tam and his well armed government troops.
		Dalyell had supported the royalist cause since his youth.
	www.scotwars.com /html/tam_dalyell.htm (249 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - New rector Dalyell celebrates win (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mr Dalyell, MP for Linlithgow and Father of the House, was returned by a margin of more than 300 votes by staff and students at the university.
		Mr Dalyell, a frequent dissenter in the House of Commons, campaigned on a programme of widening access to the university and boosting the opening times of libraries on campus which have recently been eroded by budget cuts.
		Recently Mr Dalyell has been the vanguard of moves to prevent a war in Iraq and is today planning to address an anti-war rally in Sunderland.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=285632003 (420 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - MP set for degree of success with city role (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		REBEL Labour MP Tam Dalyell is being lined up by students as a contender for the prestigious post of rector of Edinburgh University.
		"Tam Dalyell’s name is one of a couple of names I’ve heard bandied about, but nominations aren’t due to close until the middle of February.
		Mr Dalyell who, as the longest-serving member of the Commons is known as the Father of the House, was elected in June 1962 for the old West Lothian constituency.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1302052002 (749 words)

	Meet A Labor Party Brit Who Wants to Dump Blair - by Jim Moore
		DALYELL: If Mister Blair goes ahead with his support of an American attack without unambiguous UN authorization, and without a vote in the House of Commons, he should be branded a war criminal and sent to the Hague.
		DALYELL: He is. But he seems to have no understanding that to sanction military action without proper Security Council authorization is illegal under international law.
		DALYELL: In 1994, I visited Baghdad and saw the carbonated limbs of women and children impregnated against a wall by the heat of just one cruise missile.
	www.juntosociety.com /guest/moore/jm_lpb031703.html (769 words)

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